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<i>- The council has decided?
- We go to war.</i>

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<i>Move to formation. We advance east.</i>

3
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<i>I gave my word to
defend against the Getae.</i>

4
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You will march where you are commanded!

5
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You came back. For me.
Knowing it could mean your life.

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There is no life without you.

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<i>The shadow of Rome is vast.
And you will die under it.</i>

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I have a batch of new
recruits arriving tomorrow.

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If I were to purchase this man

10
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to be trained at my ludus
in the gladiatorial arts...

11
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Why in his condition,

12
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I doubt he'll survive
to the quarter moon.

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Sura...

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When the romans came...

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I thought I'd never see you.

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Shhh.

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I will always be with you.

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The gods themselves could
not keep me from your side.

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I would kill them all for trying.

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(Gasp)

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Have him taken to the baths.

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But first attend to
all that fucking hair.

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Uh!

24
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Uh! Ahh!

25
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Dominus.

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The pool's dry.

27
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Yes we need rain.

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Money would also see it filled.

29
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We need that, too.

30
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How fares your new pet?

31
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He breathes.

32
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His cost was enough for us
to fill our pool for a month.

33
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You paid beyond the asking.

34
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I paid his worth, Lucretia.

35
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Spartacus is a corpse yet walking.

36
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How long before he takes
his place in the grave,

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dragging your investment with him?

38
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Not before he serves his purpose.

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From the Legatus Claudius Glaber.

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His intentions?

41
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Nudging toward my desires.

42
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He comes here?

43
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Two days hence.

44
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Well, the reason for
his visit is absent.

45
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In words, but the meaning shines.

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He comes to thank me.

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For what?

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For paying too much for the thracian?

49
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Spartacus defied Glaber's attempt
at assassination in the arena.

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The people demanded freedom,

51
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an embarrassment for the Legatus.

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I offered an alternative,
by purchasing him.

53
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At inflated price.

54
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If Spartacus survives to swear the oath,

55
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the arena will be his
tomb as first intended.

56
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If not..

57
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Then his passing becomes an
early delight for the Legatus.

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(Chuckles)

59
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Um. Desires well nudged.

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Huh. There's yet more stroking needed.

61
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A simple gesture of gratitude
from the Legatus falls short.

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Patronage is the reward we seek.

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Nothing less.

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The Legatus as patron...

65
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His coins will fill our
pool to overflowing.

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We'll need to prepare a feast.

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A small one.

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With wine. And water. Lots of water.

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Just enough... to wet the tongue.

70
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I'll sacrifice a bull to appease
the gods in our venture.

71
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Well perhaps something smaller?

72
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A ram, then.

73
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To the gods.

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May they bless us with good fortune...

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(Heavy door opened)

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(Gladiators laugh)

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(Closing and locking of door)

78
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Well lick my hole.
The pig-fucker's still alive.

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Barca: This is the one?

80
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The Spartacus everyone's
been pissing about?

81
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Spartacus? My name is...

82
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No one gives shit to
who you were, thracian.

83
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I give no shit to who he is.

84
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(Gladiators laugh)

85
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What is this place?

86
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Ashur: The afterlife, friend.

87
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Or least outside its rusted gates.

88
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You're now an honored guest of Batiatus,

89
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master of the greatest ludus in Capua.

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(Roar in agreement)

91
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Ludus?

92
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A school of training.

93
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Where men are forged into gods,

94
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blood their ambrosia,
the arena, their mountaintop.

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Gladiators.

96
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The truest of brotherhoods!

97
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(Roar in agreement)

98
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Barca: Live the next few days,

99
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you and the other recruits
will count yourself among us.

100
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And bare our mark.

101
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(Gladiators laugh)

102
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In the mean, can we fetch you something?

103
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Food? Water?

104
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Maybe some scented oils for your feet?

105
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Water.

106
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(Gladiators laugh)

107
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Oh, he's slow this one, isn't he?

108
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Barca: What do you
expect from a thracian?

109
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Smells like fresh shit.

110
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(Gladiators snugger)

111
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Crixus: Oh, they all do.

112
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Except for their women.

113
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They smell like piss and shit.

114
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What are you, then?

115
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I'm a gaul, little man.

116
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The greatest of my kind.
Crixus, the undefeated!

117
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A gaul.

118
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That explains why you
smell like a woman.

119
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Oh you tend to your wounds.

120
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Eat. Rest.

121
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When you gain your strength,
we'll revisit that remark.

122
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Freak!

123
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Pile of shit. Not a cock among them.

124
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Well then you should join them,
you little cunt.

125
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What is beneath your feet?

126
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Answer!

127
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What is beneath your feet?

128
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Sand?

129
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Crixus!

130
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What is beneath your feet?

131
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Sacred ground, Doctore!

132
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Watered with the tears of blood!

133
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Doctore your tears. Your blood.

134
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Your pathetic lives,
forged into something of worth.

135
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Doctore: Listen. Learn.
And perhaps, live.

136
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As gladiators.

137
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Now, attend your master!

138
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Batiatus: You have been blessed!

139
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Each and every one of you,

140
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to find yourselves here,

141
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at the ludus of Quintus
Lentulus Batiatus!

142
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Purveyor of the finest gladiators
in all of the Republic!

143
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(Roar in agreement)

144
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Batiatus: Prove yourselves,
in the hard days to follow.

145
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Prove yourselves more
than a common slave.

146
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More than a man.

147
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Batiatus: Fail, and die.

148
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Either here where you stand,
or sold off to the mines.

149
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Succeed, and stand
proud among my titans!

150
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Batiatus. Batiatus. Batiatus.

151
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A gladiator does not fear death.

152
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He embraces it. Caresses it. Fucks it.

153
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(Chuckles)

154
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Each time he enters the arena,

155
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he slips his cock into
the mouth of the beast.

156
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And prays to thrust home
before the jaws snap shut.

157
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Uh!

158
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None of you stray dogs would
last a fleeting moment.

159
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Except one.

160
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This sad, battered thracian
stood against four in the arena.

161
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Condemned to die, given nothing but
a sword to wager his life upon.

162
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They came at him!

163
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<i>Doctore: Again and
again and again!</i>

164
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Uh!

165
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Uh!

166
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<i>Doctore: He defied death! Fate!
The gods themselves!</i>

167
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Raaaa!

168
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Yaaaa!

169
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Argh! Argh!

170
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Yaaaaa! Uh!

171
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Spartacus.... Spartacus...Spartacus...

172
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Gaze at this man!

173
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Study him. And realize...

174
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He is nothing.

175
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Doctore: A coward.
A deserter from the auxiliary.

176
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Doctore: His victory in the arena,
as hollow as his courage.

177
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He fought against the il
l-trained men of Solonius,

178
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your master's rival.

179
00:14:09,352 --> 00:14:12,354
Batiatus: Had Spartacus entered the
arena with any gladiator here...

180
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His head would have left
well in advance of his body!

181
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Doctore: The thracian disagrees.

182
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A demonstration, perhaps?

183
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Crixus!

184
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Practice swords.

185
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Prove us wrong, Spartacus.

186
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Pick it up.

187
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Spartacus!

188
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That is not my name.

189
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Grrr!

190
00:15:21,524 --> 00:15:26,061
Your name, your life, is what we decide.

191
00:15:47,817 --> 00:15:52,587
Perhaps the coward requires advantage
to still his trembling knees.

192
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Gladius!

193
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Pick it up.

194
00:16:16,979 --> 00:16:19,080
I can do nothing with this one.

195
00:16:19,148 --> 00:16:20,982
Send him to the mines.

196
00:16:25,721 --> 00:16:26,788
Uh!

197
00:16:34,830 --> 00:16:36,097
Feeling rested, are we?

198
00:16:45,208 --> 00:16:47,576
(Laughing and cheering)

199
00:16:47,643 --> 00:16:51,279
An attack must be grounded
in proper footing.

200
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He attempts to press
before regaining balance.

201
00:16:58,454 --> 00:16:59,788
Ahhh!

202
00:17:01,424 --> 00:17:03,191
Gladiators: Crixus!

203
00:17:14,971 --> 00:17:16,037
Ahh!

204
00:17:16,939 --> 00:17:18,306
Ahh!

205
00:17:23,846 --> 00:17:25,847
Doctore: Allow advantage to your back...

206
00:17:25,915 --> 00:17:27,449
And you are dead.

207
00:17:40,563 --> 00:17:45,400
(Gladiators cheer)

208
00:17:52,341 --> 00:17:53,742
Oh!

209
00:17:57,747 --> 00:18:00,548
Become entangled with a
more powerful opponent...

210
00:18:00,616 --> 00:18:02,684
..And you are dead.

211
00:18:08,591 --> 00:18:10,525
Raaa!

212
00:18:13,462 --> 00:18:14,629
Uh!

213
00:18:24,674 --> 00:18:26,441
Doctore: Hurl your sword in the arena...

214
00:18:26,509 --> 00:18:28,877
And you are dead again.

215
00:18:44,927 --> 00:18:46,928
Your foolishness has cost a life.

216
00:18:46,996 --> 00:18:50,398
But yours may yet be redeemed.

217
00:18:50,466 --> 00:18:52,967
Two fingers. A sign of surrender.

218
00:18:53,035 --> 00:18:55,804
A plea of mercy to the
editor of the games!

219
00:19:02,111 --> 00:19:04,045
Beg for your life, little rabbit.

220
00:19:08,551 --> 00:19:09,617
Bash his skull in!

221
00:19:10,986 --> 00:19:12,387
Batiatus: Crixus!

222
00:19:16,659 --> 00:19:17,826
Dominus.

223
00:19:17,893 --> 00:19:19,427
Continue training.

224
00:19:23,466 --> 00:19:26,501
He tries to kill your best man,
and yet you let him live?

225
00:19:26,569 --> 00:19:28,670
Glaber visits tomorrow.

226
00:19:28,738 --> 00:19:32,173
His intention towards the
thracian may include blood.

227
00:19:32,241 --> 00:19:37,045
Until his patronage is secured I
intend to keep it warm and flowing.

228
00:19:37,113 --> 00:19:39,781
God, the heat!

229
00:19:39,849 --> 00:19:42,550
Enough to boil the tongue from the head!

230
00:20:50,820 --> 00:20:52,754
Raa!

231
00:21:01,630 --> 00:21:03,164
Eat it!

232
00:21:23,152 --> 00:21:26,087
Shit-fucking slaves and criminals,
the lot of them.

233
00:21:27,823 --> 00:21:30,191
Are we the better?

234
00:21:30,259 --> 00:21:32,160
You survived your own execution.

235
00:21:32,228 --> 00:21:34,229
Twice, if you mark the gaul over there

236
00:21:34,296 --> 00:21:36,397
not introducing your brains to the sand.

237
00:21:37,666 --> 00:21:41,269
You are of a difference, thracian.

238
00:21:41,337 --> 00:21:43,838
Above this unfortunate collection.

239
00:21:43,906 --> 00:21:45,106
And you?

240
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Varro.

241
00:21:48,477 --> 00:21:51,212
The worst of the lot.

242
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,082
A free man consigned by his own hand.

243
00:21:55,651 --> 00:21:58,953
Why would a man willingly
condemn himself to this?

244
00:21:59,021 --> 00:22:02,423
A small matter of debt, grown large.

245
00:22:02,491 --> 00:22:04,425
The repaying of it proves difficult.

246
00:22:05,761 --> 00:22:08,062
If the concern was only to me...

247
00:22:10,232 --> 00:22:11,799
A family?

248
00:22:12,401 --> 00:22:13,768
Wife and child.

249
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A boy.

250
00:22:17,773 --> 00:22:20,708
Two years in the arena,
my winnings will keep them fed.

251
00:22:21,777 --> 00:22:23,011
Winnings?

252
00:22:23,078 --> 00:22:25,513
Fight well, and you're
rewarded with coin.

253
00:22:25,581 --> 00:22:28,049
Enough even to balance what I owe,
the gods be fortunate.

254
00:22:29,552 --> 00:22:30,885
The gods.

255
00:22:33,188 --> 00:22:35,189
You are a fool.

256
00:22:35,257 --> 00:22:37,025
And in good company, by the judging.

257
00:22:39,495 --> 00:22:41,062
Batiatus: They're the best
I could do at the moment.

258
00:22:41,130 --> 00:22:43,197
One or two show promise. But the rest

259
00:22:43,265 --> 00:22:44,532
my own mother would
have them in the arena.

260
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,667
You have no mother.

261
00:22:45,734 --> 00:22:47,268
You were belched from the
cunt of the underworld.

262
00:22:47,336 --> 00:22:48,269
That's why I favor you.

263
00:22:48,337 --> 00:22:49,437
Were there no better offerings?

264
00:22:49,505 --> 00:22:50,438
Better, yes!

265
00:22:50,506 --> 00:22:52,340
Within the reach of my purse, no!

266
00:22:52,408 --> 00:22:56,477
You stand questioning and complaining
instead of setting yourself to the task!

267
00:22:56,545 --> 00:23:00,148
I press to honor you, Batiatus.
And this ludus.

268
00:23:00,215 --> 00:23:01,716
Legatus Glaber visits tomorrow.

269
00:23:01,784 --> 00:23:03,251
With him hope of renewed fortunes.

270
00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:06,721
Till then, these men are
all the straw afforded.

271
00:23:06,789 --> 00:23:09,958
Bake them into brick,
or crumble them to the mines.

272
00:23:10,025 --> 00:23:12,493
Your will. My hands.

273
00:23:16,732 --> 00:23:19,834
Ovidius! Apologies for the delay!

274
00:23:19,902 --> 00:23:21,502
Accepted, if made with coin.

275
00:23:23,005 --> 00:23:26,708
Three months of grain,
the payment standing past due.

276
00:23:26,775 --> 00:23:27,709
Three, is it?

277
00:23:27,776 --> 00:23:28,843
To the day.

278
00:23:31,981 --> 00:23:34,048
The games of the Vulcanalia approach.

279
00:23:34,116 --> 00:23:36,084
If I could carry the debt till then...

280
00:23:36,151 --> 00:23:38,353
The principle, plus thirty percent.

281
00:23:38,420 --> 00:23:40,221
Thirty?!

282
00:23:40,289 --> 00:23:43,524
Or settle the debt as it stands.

283
00:23:43,592 --> 00:23:47,228
Huh, principle plus thirty.
After the Vulcanalia.

284
00:23:47,296 --> 00:23:48,997
The day after.

285
00:24:04,913 --> 00:24:06,180
Uh!

286
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,217
I could have taken him.

287
00:24:09,284 --> 00:24:13,621
Crixus? Pff, the shit would
be running down your leg.

288
00:24:13,689 --> 00:24:16,224
I wouldn't have ended up in the dirt,
fucked like a dog.

289
00:24:16,291 --> 00:24:19,861
Without training, the gaul would
have bested any of us, Kerza.

290
00:24:19,928 --> 00:24:22,363
Speaking otherwise is bloated air.

291
00:24:22,431 --> 00:24:26,567
I pray not to face
Crixus in the final test.

292
00:24:26,635 --> 00:24:30,238
Kerza: Nothing to worry. You'll
never make it that far, cock hole.

293
00:24:30,305 --> 00:24:33,508
All can make it to the test. And beyond.

294
00:24:34,677 --> 00:24:36,811
Freedom.

295
00:24:36,879 --> 00:24:39,313
Varro: One day. If you fight well.

296
00:24:39,381 --> 00:24:43,317
Freedom, it's piss without
the money to keep it, Varro.

297
00:24:43,385 --> 00:24:46,387
Win the hearts of the crowd in the
arena and you'll be blessed with both.

298
00:24:49,158 --> 00:24:52,126
You fought the gladiators there.

299
00:24:52,194 --> 00:24:54,062
What do you think of our chances?

300
00:24:58,967 --> 00:25:00,334
You're all going to die.

301
00:25:04,940 --> 00:25:06,641
(Door unlocked)

302
00:25:08,343 --> 00:25:13,147
Up! You will sleep when
you prove yourselves men.

303
00:25:34,136 --> 00:25:35,069
Ah!

304
00:25:35,137 --> 00:25:36,304
Doctore: Keep pace!

305
00:25:46,014 --> 00:25:47,248
It's late.

306
00:25:48,617 --> 00:25:52,220
It is. Return to your dreams.

307
00:25:52,287 --> 00:25:53,755
In a minute.

308
00:25:56,258 --> 00:25:57,692
We need better wine.

309
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,761
We need many things.

310
00:26:00,896 --> 00:26:02,330
We'll have them, again.

311
00:26:04,466 --> 00:26:06,601
The arrangements are set?

312
00:26:06,668 --> 00:26:08,970
I've taken care of everything.

313
00:26:09,037 --> 00:26:10,638
Cannot fall short tomorrow.

314
00:26:10,706 --> 00:26:12,907
If I can secure Glaber's patronage...

315
00:26:12,975 --> 00:26:14,142
You will.

316
00:26:16,178 --> 00:26:17,445
How are you certain?

317
00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:21,349
We've done everything we can.

318
00:26:21,416 --> 00:26:23,184
It's in the hands of the gods now.

319
00:26:29,024 --> 00:26:30,258
Come to bed.

320
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,394
And bring that awful wine.

321
00:26:36,131 --> 00:26:37,431
I beg you.

322
00:26:38,333 --> 00:26:40,635
Do not fuck me.

323
00:26:59,688 --> 00:27:01,389
(Struggling)

324
00:27:10,666 --> 00:27:12,200
Halt!

325
00:27:12,267 --> 00:27:14,902
The day's training will begin shortly.

326
00:27:14,970 --> 00:27:16,204
Eat.

327
00:27:20,108 --> 00:27:21,642
Eh! Jupiter's cock.

328
00:27:21,710 --> 00:27:23,578
Now we train all day?

329
00:27:27,416 --> 00:27:30,117
Still believe every man
will live to see the test?

330
00:27:33,922 --> 00:27:36,123
Mostly.

331
00:27:36,191 --> 00:27:38,059
Yet the fool, then.

332
00:27:40,562 --> 00:27:42,163
Spartacus: Batiatus paid for these men?

333
00:27:42,231 --> 00:27:45,099
Varro: Very little, by the look of them.

334
00:27:45,167 --> 00:27:49,670
The roman way. Lives for coins.

335
00:27:49,738 --> 00:27:52,006
Some deserving more than others.

336
00:27:52,074 --> 00:27:56,344
I've heard a certain
thracian was quite the price.

337
00:27:56,411 --> 00:27:59,013
Spartacus: I would see the
cost rise higher still.

338
00:28:05,687 --> 00:28:06,754
Um!

339
00:28:09,124 --> 00:28:11,125
Barca: I recall the
hardship of the march,

340
00:28:11,193 --> 00:28:12,426
when I was a recruit.

341
00:28:12,494 --> 00:28:15,730
You must be mad with hunger.

342
00:28:15,797 --> 00:28:17,265
Fill your bellies!

343
00:28:31,313 --> 00:28:33,214
Shit.

344
00:28:39,354 --> 00:28:41,622
Wake me when it's time to die again.

345
00:28:50,899 --> 00:28:52,700
Apologies for the porridge.

346
00:28:52,768 --> 00:28:55,169
Barca finds the jest amusing.

347
00:28:55,237 --> 00:28:56,404
Least he didn't piss in it this time.

348
00:28:56,471 --> 00:28:58,105
Adds an unpleasant bite.

349
00:28:59,408 --> 00:29:05,346
The days will be hard.
Without food, more so.

350
00:29:05,414 --> 00:29:07,581
You would give me your bread?

351
00:29:07,649 --> 00:29:11,218
Mine, no.

352
00:29:11,286 --> 00:29:13,888
I move things from here to there,
this hand to that.

353
00:29:13,956 --> 00:29:16,424
Even from outside these walls.

354
00:29:16,491 --> 00:29:19,193
Whatever your needs, Ashur provides.

355
00:29:19,828 --> 00:29:21,662
I owe no man.

356
00:29:23,932 --> 00:29:26,667
I ask nothing in return.

357
00:29:26,735 --> 00:29:30,604
My only concern is your strength
and well being in the coming day.

358
00:29:30,672 --> 00:29:32,840
Come to plain words.

359
00:29:34,543 --> 00:29:35,977
Simply stated, then.

360
00:29:37,212 --> 00:29:41,048
In addition to other services,
I offer odds.

361
00:29:41,116 --> 00:29:42,717
Will this man live? That one die?

362
00:29:42,784 --> 00:29:45,219
How fast? How slow? On what day or hour?

363
00:29:45,287 --> 00:29:48,356
Games to pass the time. And the coin.

364
00:29:48,423 --> 00:29:49,557
And how am I fixed?

365
00:29:49,624 --> 00:29:52,326
Twelve to the one, favoring the mines.

366
00:29:52,394 --> 00:29:53,494
Higher towards your death.

367
00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:58,833
Crixus stands to lose a sum
if you defy the numbering.

368
00:29:59,735 --> 00:30:01,535
I would see it so.

369
00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:12,146
Ahh.

370
00:30:14,483 --> 00:30:16,984
Do not think me friend.

371
00:30:17,052 --> 00:30:18,919
The thought is well removed.

372
00:30:38,006 --> 00:30:39,306
How did you manage this?

373
00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:41,909
By playing the odds.

374
00:30:43,545 --> 00:30:45,613
I fear they're about to worsen.

375
00:31:19,414 --> 00:31:20,414
Glaber.

376
00:31:20,482 --> 00:31:22,783
You will address me by title of Legatus.

377
00:31:28,190 --> 00:31:32,026
Yet the animal. The mark of your kind.

378
00:31:32,627 --> 00:31:33,828
Where is she?

379
00:31:33,895 --> 00:31:35,062
Who?

380
00:31:37,099 --> 00:31:38,232
That little wife of yours?

381
00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:39,233
Where?

382
00:31:39,301 --> 00:31:41,469
Wherever I please!

383
00:31:46,842 --> 00:31:49,110
She served you no grievance.

384
00:31:49,177 --> 00:31:50,611
No.

385
00:31:51,213 --> 00:31:54,715
None. But you...

386
00:31:54,783 --> 00:31:56,817
You have grieved me.

387
00:31:56,885 --> 00:31:58,552
By stirring the auxiliary to desertion.

388
00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:00,154
Calling my command into question,

389
00:32:00,222 --> 00:32:03,891
imperiling my standing with the senate.

390
00:32:03,959 --> 00:32:06,694
And then in the arena
you grieve me again,

391
00:32:06,761 --> 00:32:09,497
by not knowing when to die.

392
00:32:09,564 --> 00:32:10,731
My life, then.

393
00:32:12,167 --> 00:32:13,901
In exchange for hers.

394
00:32:13,969 --> 00:32:15,769
Your life is no longer yours to bargain!

395
00:32:17,973 --> 00:32:19,306
If I wish it ceased,

396
00:32:19,374 --> 00:32:21,175
I have but to whisper

397
00:32:21,243 --> 00:32:23,978
and good Batiatus will command it!

398
00:32:24,045 --> 00:32:26,147
Then tongue the words in his ear.

399
00:32:30,585 --> 00:32:33,354
You mistake me, thracian.

400
00:32:33,421 --> 00:32:38,626
True. I once sought death in
repayment for your slights.

401
00:32:38,693 --> 00:32:45,266
But I see the error of that now.
Wishing for an end too quick.

402
00:32:46,768 --> 00:32:50,271
No. My desires have turned to blood.

403
00:32:50,338 --> 00:32:54,708
Spilled by the drop, over time,
until you are drained.

404
00:32:56,411 --> 00:32:58,212
I told you Rome's shadow was vast.

405
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,083
And you will yet die under it. Sliver
by sliver, to the roar of the crowd.

406
00:33:07,856 --> 00:33:09,223
Oh.

407
00:33:13,128 --> 00:33:17,164
A parting kindness, to bind us.

408
00:33:23,371 --> 00:33:30,444
I took it from her thigh
to preserve the scent.

409
00:33:30,512 --> 00:33:33,781
Before my men stained it with their own.

410
00:33:34,416 --> 00:33:37,017
Raaa! No!

411
00:33:37,085 --> 00:33:40,988
She was a savage amusement.

412
00:33:41,056 --> 00:33:44,124
And when the fight
finally left her eyes.

413
00:33:44,192 --> 00:33:48,062
I sold her to an unpleasant
syrian for half a coin.

414
00:33:54,869 --> 00:33:58,739
You see the thracian finally
learns his place before me.

415
00:34:01,476 --> 00:34:03,410
On his knees.

416
00:34:08,316 --> 00:34:10,117
Raaaa!

417
00:34:10,185 --> 00:34:13,120
Your visit with the thracian
was satisfying, then?

418
00:34:13,188 --> 00:34:15,322
The man is of no more concern to me.

419
00:34:15,390 --> 00:34:19,260
No none whatsoever! We've
prepared a feast in your honor!

420
00:34:19,327 --> 00:34:20,427
I leave for Rome.

421
00:34:20,495 --> 00:34:21,996
Rome? Now?

422
00:34:22,063 --> 00:34:24,698
Errr, something for your trip, then?

423
00:34:29,170 --> 00:34:32,539
You really shouldn't have
gone to the trouble, Lucretia.

424
00:34:32,607 --> 00:34:35,542
These common dishes leave
my stomach unsettled.

425
00:34:36,945 --> 00:34:39,513
Some wine perhaps,
while we wait for your husband?

426
00:34:39,581 --> 00:34:40,914
Sestian?

427
00:34:40,982 --> 00:34:44,084
No, but something of equal taste?

428
00:34:44,152 --> 00:34:45,586
Water, then.

429
00:34:48,723 --> 00:34:53,294
The heat and the dust.
Will it ever rain again?

430
00:34:53,361 --> 00:34:55,429
We can only pray.

431
00:34:55,497 --> 00:34:57,197
Can't place foot on street in Capua

432
00:34:57,265 --> 00:35:00,100
without hearing someone pleading
to the heavens for a sprinkle.

433
00:35:00,902 --> 00:35:04,271
And the gods yet ignore us.

434
00:35:04,339 --> 00:35:06,874
Perhaps we've done
something to offend them.

435
00:35:09,010 --> 00:35:12,079
I try to do a little something everyday.

436
00:35:13,415 --> 00:35:15,082
So you're the cause, Ilithyia.

437
00:35:15,150 --> 00:35:20,754
I'd stand a bit away. Jupiter
could hurl a bolt at any moment.

438
00:35:20,822 --> 00:35:23,090
He'd have to choose between targets.

439
00:35:24,859 --> 00:35:29,730
And I thought I was in the
presence of a proper roman woman.

440
00:35:29,798 --> 00:35:34,568
Proper is a word forged by men who
would seek to enslave us with it.

441
00:35:36,805 --> 00:35:37,805
Doctore: Kerza!

442
00:35:37,872 --> 00:35:39,606
(Sound of fighting)

443
00:36:07,268 --> 00:36:10,204
Have you ever been inside a ludus?

444
00:36:10,271 --> 00:36:15,743
No. I've always wanted to.
But father would never allow it.

445
00:36:15,810 --> 00:36:18,645
You obey his commands?

446
00:36:18,713 --> 00:36:21,915
Not all of them. Or my husband's.

447
00:36:21,983 --> 00:36:27,688
How do you live with the noise and the
smell, surrounded by these animals?

448
00:36:27,756 --> 00:36:31,291
Yes, they are wild and savage,
aren't they?

449
00:36:31,359 --> 00:36:35,963
Something out of a fever dream.
Isn't it a worry?

450
00:36:36,030 --> 00:36:39,600
I mean, what if they went insane
all at once, clamoring for blood?!

451
00:36:39,667 --> 00:36:42,169
This ludus has been in my
husband's family for generations.

452
00:36:42,237 --> 00:36:43,737
And yet it stands.

453
00:36:43,805 --> 00:36:48,342
What about your children?
Do you let them play with them?

454
00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:51,612
Um, I'm without children.

455
00:36:54,282 --> 00:36:57,785
Oh. Apologies. I just thought
a woman of your age...

456
00:36:57,852 --> 00:36:59,486
Um.

457
00:37:03,291 --> 00:37:06,026
Come. We leave for Rome.

458
00:37:06,094 --> 00:37:07,661
So soon?

459
00:37:07,729 --> 00:37:11,799
Well, can't we stay awhile?
I want to watch the gladiators.

460
00:37:11,866 --> 00:37:14,601
Another time. Come.

461
00:37:32,620 --> 00:37:34,788
(Clash of wooden swords)

462
00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:50,037
Kerza!

463
00:37:53,074 --> 00:37:55,008
Pair with Spartacus.

464
00:37:55,076 --> 00:37:56,276
Yes, Doctore.

465
00:37:57,378 --> 00:38:00,180
Doctore: Recruits! Attend!

466
00:38:00,248 --> 00:38:02,683
Show the thracian what we've
learned in his absence.

467
00:38:14,529 --> 00:38:16,763
Form one. Attack!

468
00:38:16,831 --> 00:38:18,465
Raaa!

469
00:38:26,307 --> 00:38:27,541
Ahhh!

470
00:38:30,345 --> 00:38:32,312
Form two. Attack!

471
00:38:32,380 --> 00:38:33,780
Yaaaa!

472
00:38:56,137 --> 00:38:57,204
Raaa!

473
00:38:58,573 --> 00:38:59,640
Uh!

474
00:39:00,708 --> 00:39:01,775
Spartacus!

475
00:39:04,779 --> 00:39:06,246
Spartacus!

476
00:39:41,416 --> 00:39:43,150
Uh!

477
00:39:57,365 --> 00:40:00,267
The gods haven't pissed
on me enough for one day?!

478
00:40:00,335 --> 00:40:04,438
Legatus fucking Glaber spurns
me like a common slave, but no!

479
00:40:04,505 --> 00:40:07,240
Let's add shit to the piss
let's pour it in his mouth!

480
00:40:07,308 --> 00:40:10,277
If word gets out that Batiatus
can't control his own men...

481
00:40:10,345 --> 00:40:11,878
I warned you of their quality.

482
00:40:11,946 --> 00:40:15,082
You warn me nothing! You counsel,
and make promises to the air!

483
00:40:15,149 --> 00:40:16,850
"My hands, your will."

484
00:40:19,053 --> 00:40:21,355
The Legatus, barely
beyond my fucking gates!

485
00:40:21,422 --> 00:40:22,623
The thracian is unpredictable.

486
00:40:22,690 --> 00:40:24,358
Then school him to our standards.

487
00:40:24,425 --> 00:40:27,761
Rod and lash fall unnoticed. He's an
animal, best unleashed in the mines.

488
00:40:27,829 --> 00:40:31,331
No. The rest to the gods,
they were all of little cost.

489
00:40:31,399 --> 00:40:37,504
Spartacus is more highly valued, his
worth well exceeding their entire sum.

490
00:40:37,572 --> 00:40:40,540
I will have return.
If not from the Legatus,

491
00:40:40,608 --> 00:40:42,109
then from the man himself.

492
00:40:42,176 --> 00:40:44,978
Even though he is unpredictable?

493
00:40:45,046 --> 00:40:49,483
He is but passionate,
and he stirs the same in others.

494
00:40:49,550 --> 00:40:53,387
A boon to the crowds, if we can but
divine the instrument of his taming.

495
00:40:55,690 --> 00:41:00,861
He struggled to retain this bit of
fabric, even as the guards beat him.

496
00:41:00,928 --> 00:41:03,664
It may bring you some service.

497
00:41:03,731 --> 00:41:07,467
I noted this in the hand of
the Legatus, upon his arrival.

498
00:41:17,145 --> 00:41:20,881
Bring him to my chamber.
I'll press to discovery.

499
00:41:33,861 --> 00:41:35,462
Why are you here?

500
00:41:35,530 --> 00:41:39,299
In this place. Under my hospitality.
Do you know why?

501
00:41:39,367 --> 00:41:42,703
Because I trusted in
the honor of a roman.

502
00:41:42,770 --> 00:41:47,274
You are here because of my grandfather.

503
00:41:47,341 --> 00:41:50,110
He built this ludus.

504
00:41:50,178 --> 00:41:52,979
He believed that no
man was without worth.

505
00:41:53,047 --> 00:41:57,050
That even the most vile among us
could rise to honor and glory.

506
00:41:57,118 --> 00:41:59,953
He instilled these beliefs in my father,

507
00:42:00,021 --> 00:42:02,689
who in turn passed them on to me.

508
00:42:02,757 --> 00:42:09,362
I am a lanista, like my forefathers.
A trainer of gladiators.

509
00:42:09,430 --> 00:42:12,099
I see things in men that
they themselves have lost.

510
00:42:12,166 --> 00:42:14,534
A small spark. An ember.

511
00:42:14,602 --> 00:42:18,638
I give it breath, tinder.
Until it ignites in the arena.

512
00:42:20,007 --> 00:42:22,142
I burn for no cause but my own.

513
00:42:22,210 --> 00:42:25,245
And what might that be? Money?

514
00:42:25,313 --> 00:42:27,347
You've cost me enough on that front.

515
00:42:27,415 --> 00:42:29,649
No, not so base a cause for this one.

516
00:42:29,717 --> 00:42:33,386
Position, then? Power? Love?

517
00:42:37,125 --> 00:42:39,593
You have a woman, thracian?

518
00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:41,595
I have a wife.

519
00:42:41,662 --> 00:42:42,929
And do you love her?

520
00:42:44,398 --> 00:42:46,366
Of course you do.
I can see it in the eye,

521
00:42:46,434 --> 00:42:47,801
tensing of the jaw.

522
00:42:47,869 --> 00:42:51,805
What might be the name
of this delicate flower?

523
00:42:51,873 --> 00:42:53,907
Sura.

524
00:42:53,975 --> 00:42:55,876
Where is she?

525
00:42:55,943 --> 00:42:58,378
He took her. When he came for me.

526
00:42:59,313 --> 00:43:01,782
Legatus Glaber? He has her?

527
00:43:01,849 --> 00:43:03,650
He sold her to a syrian.

528
00:43:03,718 --> 00:43:06,386
Well then how do you
know she still lives?

529
00:43:06,454 --> 00:43:10,090
How do you know the heart
beats beneath your chest?

530
00:43:10,158 --> 00:43:14,961
Most days, I don't.
I'm just a simple roman

531
00:43:15,029 --> 00:43:20,133
trying to make his way against the
whim of the gods, the politicians,

532
00:43:20,201 --> 00:43:22,936
the miscreants, though often you
can't tell one from another.

533
00:43:23,004 --> 00:43:27,607
But you, you are the most
dangerous of animals.

534
00:43:27,675 --> 00:43:30,043
The beast born of the heart.

535
00:43:30,111 --> 00:43:32,746
What would you do to hold your wife again?

536
00:43:32,814 --> 00:43:36,483
To feel the warmth of her skin,
to taste her lips?

537
00:43:36,551 --> 00:43:38,485
Would you kill?

538
00:43:38,553 --> 00:43:41,388
Whoever stood between us.

539
00:43:41,455 --> 00:43:44,925
How many men? A hundred? A thousand?

540
00:43:44,992 --> 00:43:46,459
I would kill them all.

541
00:43:46,527 --> 00:43:48,762
Then do it in the arena!

542
00:43:48,830 --> 00:43:52,232
Fight for me and the
honor of my forefathers!

543
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:56,403
Prove yourself. Climb to the pinnacle,
gain your freedom

544
00:43:56,470 --> 00:43:59,206
and that of the woman you've lost.

545
00:43:59,273 --> 00:44:05,111
I did not lose her.
She was taken from me.

546
00:44:05,179 --> 00:44:09,616
A man must accept his fate.
Or be destroyed by it.

547
00:44:11,853 --> 00:44:16,857
Why would I place my fate in
the hands of another roman?

548
00:44:18,059 --> 00:44:19,659
Because of what they hold.

549
00:44:23,965 --> 00:44:25,832
Your wife's?

550
00:44:29,470 --> 00:44:33,340
Pass the final test, tonight.
With honor and servitude.

551
00:44:33,407 --> 00:44:37,944
Call me Dominus.
And I will help to reunite you.

552
00:44:49,991 --> 00:44:51,658
The choice is yours.

553
00:45:35,836 --> 00:45:37,203
Batiatus: Cease!

554
00:45:39,106 --> 00:45:42,909
Varro has stood to a draw!
The test is passed!

555
00:45:54,255 --> 00:45:58,491
Barca! Marcus! Positions!

556
00:46:03,431 --> 00:46:05,966
Gladiators: Barca! Barca!

557
00:46:17,745 --> 00:46:18,712
Batiatus: Begin!

558
00:46:18,779 --> 00:46:19,879
Raaaa!

559
00:46:33,060 --> 00:46:34,561
That's disappointing.

560
00:46:34,628 --> 00:46:36,930
Not every venture ends in climax.

561
00:46:36,998 --> 00:46:39,132
A fact known well to every woman.

562
00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:53,446
Crixus!

563
00:46:54,982 --> 00:46:58,051
Spartacus! Positions!

564
00:47:09,697 --> 00:47:12,032
Gladiators: Crixus! Crixus!

565
00:47:36,490 --> 00:47:39,926
One final lesson, before I
send you to the afterlife.

566
00:47:51,372 --> 00:47:52,439
Begin!

567
00:48:04,385 --> 00:48:05,552
Fuck.

568
00:48:05,619 --> 00:48:08,254
Expensive and worthless,
all in a measure.

569
00:48:09,924 --> 00:48:11,724
Fight! You thracian bitch!

570
00:48:21,936 --> 00:48:23,503
Tears!

571
00:48:27,041 --> 00:48:29,776
The rabbit is fixed to piss himself!

572
00:48:29,844 --> 00:48:31,811
(Laughter)

573
00:48:51,899 --> 00:48:53,566
Barca: Skin the rabbit!

574
00:48:56,237 --> 00:48:57,971
Ah! Oh!

575
00:49:08,249 --> 00:49:09,749
Ahh! Ahhh!

576
00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:13,920
Finish him!

577
00:49:17,191 --> 00:49:18,758
Thracians.

578
00:49:28,869 --> 00:49:30,803
Ahhh!

579
00:49:48,589 --> 00:49:50,390
The lesson is well learned.

580
00:49:51,959 --> 00:49:53,193
Batiatus: Spartacus!

581
00:49:55,396 --> 00:49:57,163
Cease.

582
00:50:03,003 --> 00:50:05,972
You have passed the test.

583
00:50:16,617 --> 00:50:17,951
Dominus.

584
00:50:20,588 --> 00:50:26,492
<i>Batiatus: Your life now promises
meaning. Swear it to me.</i>

585
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,861
<i>Recite the Sacramentum
Gladiatorum.</i>

586
00:50:30,831 --> 00:50:37,136
<i>Spartacus: I commit my flesh. My mind.
My will.</i>

587
00:50:37,204 --> 00:50:43,543
<i>To the glory of this ludus, and the
commands of my master, Batiatus.</i>

588
00:50:46,013 --> 00:50:51,417
<i>"I swear to be burned, chained,
beaten,</i>

589
00:50:51,485 --> 00:50:53,753
or die by the sword.

590
00:50:53,821 --> 00:50:56,522
In pursuit of honor in the arena.

591
00:51:09,503 --> 00:51:11,738
Welcome to the brotherhood.

592
00:51:12,238 --> 00:51:14,238
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